Artist as Lover: Rereading Ingres's Raphael and the Fornarina.
La Fornarina, between 1518 and 1519, oil on wood, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome There is also a great beauty to be found in Raphael’s subjects. One instantly thinks of La Fornarina, the artist’s portrait of his mistress, Margarita Luti, the daughter of a baker (hence the painting’s title).
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La Velata - by Raphael Click Image to view detail. Responding to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Raphael developed in this portrait his own idea of female beauty and deportment. Art historians have variously identified this beautiful woman as a patron's bride and as the artist's lover and muse; she appears as a model in many of Raphael's most.
The legacies of Poussin, Raphael, Titian, and others are evident throughout his oeuvre. Turner specifically claimed Raphael and Rome as his inspirations in Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by La Fornarina, Preparing His Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia (1820; Tate, London).
Felice Schiavoni The Death of Raphael 1839-59 Oil on canvas The State Museum of Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin. In 1839, the granduke Alessandro Romanov, future Alessandro II tsar of Russia, commissioned the painter Felice Schiavoni, who was born in Trieste but had been working in Venice, to execute an enormous painting depicting the participants of the funeral for Raphael.
La Fornarina. Originally conceived as part of a series of paintings documenting the life of Ingres's idol, Raphael, La Fornarina shows the Renaissance master in the arms of his alleged mistress. Although Ingres ultimately abandoned the project, he painted five or six versions of this scene.
RAPHAEL AND THE FORNARINA (TRASTEVERE): Trastevere was the set for the love between Raphael and Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker and for that known as the Fornarina. Probably they met in Via Santa Dorotea near the Villa that Raphael was painting; the artist felt in love with the girl to the point of representing her in a painting now preserved at the Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo.